"toward a new politics of intellectual properties" by
pamela samuelson, university of california at berkley.the
traditional copyrights no longer work because today, everybody has access to
copyrighted material and can easily make copies thereof. new copyright laws are
needed. pamela encouraged the attendees to watch carefully what is going on in
the copyright area. the big content owning companies try hard to introduce new
laws and techniques to protect their intellectual properties, to prevent people
from having unrestricted access to content or make copies.

town meeting:

Q: what is the relation between W3C and other standard organization
?A: there are formal relationships with other organizations, such as IANA,
ISO

Q: what is the full potential of the web ?A: the "things" that
were on the list in 1994 (HTML, HTTP) are basically done - at least to some
extend - but there are new challenges (semantic web, Voice, accessibility) that
are still at the advent, so the W3C is not yet done and there is still a lot to
do ...

Q: we need a solution to the micropayment issue !A:
there is not enough pressure or interest from the public, therefore the W3C
stopped its activities in that area.

Q: is the W3C involved in the
certification of implementation against the W3C specifications ?A: the
W3C does currently not provide validation services, but it tries to provide
test suites.

this trip report was written on a Vadem Clio
C-1050 running Windows CE with Pocket Word. It was then transferred to a DELL
Latitude notebook and modified as needed. this page is valid HTML 4.01
transitional.